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Izuku doesn´t have an easy live. First, he lost in the Genetic Lottery and got Quirkless which resulted in mostly everybody ignoring him if he was lucky. But he wasn’t that lucky most of the time … no that wasn’t the case… His Father abandoned him even if his mother tells him that he is working oversee to provide for them… Surely…
His former best friend turned against him and between his Goal to be the Number One Hero in the Future he also has some Time for him … how Lucky… it would be if Kaachan´s Goal for Izuku wasn’t to tell him everyday how useless, Pathetic and Creepy he was and to enforce his goal he mostly uses his Fists and Quirk as an additional Suggestion device.
Izuku lost count how often he burnt him.
His Mom loves him and honestly is one of the things that keeps him going but … its hard to be with her then she would rather trap you in a Protective Bubble then believing in your dreams … even if she doesn’t show that intentionally.
School feels more like a survival of the fittest to him rather than a normal activity for everybody even though he likes learning new stuff… but … today was that kind of day where everything was against him from the start… first his classmates made fun of him and called him slurs … more than usual … maybe they are under a lot of stress because the Mid Terms are near…
The Teachers ignored him and even didn´t grade his Homework … calling it a waste of time…
Kaachan was extremely mean after school and a bit of a handful… he still feels the forming bruises on his side… at least his uniform wasn’t too badly damaged…
So Izuku decided to go to the city he … couldn’t be home right now… Inko would be worried about his current state … would be her good right but the last time she tried helping and changing it helped for a few days before it got way worse…
He wanders thru some Stores with no real target to distract himself from… everything until …
“Out of my Way” A loud shout snaps him out his thoughts right before a man tries to shove him to the side but stumbles and goes down with him. Izuku lands on his back instinctively closing his eyes and raising his arms to protect his head.
“Fuck fuck fuck…” the man curses as he stands up again and runs away Izuku slowly opens his eyes to see a Hero following the man and vanishing behind the next corner.
“Stop your needless escape and surrender to me Death Arms you Villain” shoutet the Hero behind the Man but the shouting faint to the background noises indicating that they are leaving the area.
Izuku slowly stands up and assess the situation… his site still hurts and more now that he unwillingly landed on it again also his backpack was spilled on the ground. He takes a deep breath pushing away the pain as he slowly gathers his stuff up, he just put the things inside without sorting it … that´s a future Izuku problem… right now he just wants to go home … with a little bit of luck his mom is already of for her nightshift at the Hospital.
The ride home was boring and uneventful except for the few looks he got for his dirty clothes, but he doesn’t care. He opens the Door to their apartment and is greeted with a lonely home. So Inko is still working, that’s good. It means he has enough time to clean himself and treat his injuries.
Izuku throw his backpack on his bed which open again only to spill his contains out again. Izuku just stares at the backpack as if it is mocking him but then he notices an unusual book that wasn’t definitive not his.
It has a brown Leather outside and a tiny look on the outside but not obviously mechanism to open it. Curiously he picks it up inspects it but the moment he touches the cover the Lock springs open.
Izuku flinches back from the sudden movement not expecting it. The moment his hand retreated the lock … locked again? That… doesn’t make any sense…
Izuku touches again and … it unlocks again as soon as he makes contact. He picks it up and locks on the front cover hoping to find a title or so but there is only a Pendragon with a Pencil and a Wooden Spoon forming an X on the middle but … no name… not even letters or numbers.
“Maybe on the inside” Izuku mutters with a curious tone. He opens the mysterious book and … everything went pitch black.
Blue Light... that was Izuku first thought as he wakes up. Two blues lights that looked directly at him.
Izuku slowly sits up slightly dazed wondering what happened,
"Are you awake?" asks a high-pitched voice. Izuku’s eyes dart around as he notices that a boy sits in his Chair by his Table sitting cross-legged and facing him.
"You are awake" Exclaims the boy with joy in his voice. Izuku sits on his bed and stares at this boy. He wears a green poncho under it he has a orange Longarm T-shirt, a brown Jeans and also a Yellow Cap. He has Blond Hair, blue eyes and ... small ... like 10 years old or so. the sun already set down, the window is still closed, the Door also, Izuku can hear someone working in the kitchen most likely his Mother Inko making dinner.
Suddenly two eyes look directly in his which startles him.
"Are you there?" the boy asks him while looking directly in his eyes with a frown on his.
"y-yes" Izuku answers prompt without thinking the boy looks a moment longer at him before he smiles and moves back.
“Nice so … uh right introduction… I am Ray Lee and your new best friend.” Ray speaks with a confident voice before continuing.
“I am here because your ´Quirk´ has indirectly summon me-“
“Wait wait wait wait … my Quirk?” Izuku cuts Ray midsentence
“I don’t have one … I’m quirkless” he speaks with a defeated tone his eyes looking to the ground. Suddenly he feels Ray sitting beside him on the bed.
“Meh obviously not” Izuku looks up to him as Ray look to him.
“If you where Quirkless how should I come in here?” Ray asks with a daring voice to Prof him wrong.
“Thru the Window.”
“Looked and too high for me”
“The Door”
“Don’t have a key and also this Woman is outside”
“A Quirk?”
“Possible but also impossible because -“Somebody knocks on the Door
“Izuku Darling everything alright?” Inko asks with a worrying tone.
“Yeah just talking to this kid” Izuku answers as he looks to the Door
“Because only you can hear and see me” Ray finishes his sentence as Inko opens the door a little
“Izuku?” Inko ask again
“Who are you talking too?” she looks in the Room while Izuku looks confused to her and then to Ray who shrugs his shoulders.
“Told you” Ray says casually as Inko moves closer and sites near Izuku.
“Oh Izuku what happened to you?” Inko asks worried as she inspect him. Izuku only remembers now that he didn’t clean himself up and must probably look really shitty.
“ähm … don’t worry its nothing serious I just got run over by a Hero Chasing a Villain, but nothing happened” he answers quickly trying to assure Inko that he is fine.
They talk a bit and Inko gets the First Aid Kit to tend the small injuries. Izuku sneaks every moment a look in Rays direction. Ray on the other hand just walks thru the Room and looks at different things.
Izuku walks in the dining table, Ray looks around and explores their apartment. Izuku sat down and starts to dig in. The whole situation seems just crazy. A Random child just appears in his Room and states that it is because he has a quirk but he is quirkless unless it’s a dormant quirk but that is also impossible because it would show himself a long time ago, in the other hand it’s also possible but ...
"-zuku "Izuku flinches a little as he realizes that his mother talks to him.
"Is everything all right?" Inko asks with a worrying tone in her voice.
"Yeah, it’s just ... a long day you know" Izuku answers with a soft voice, truth be told it is a long day with too many events for his liking. Inko seems satisfied with the answer.
"i know..." Inko replies with an understanding tone.
"but if you need anything just tell me"
"I will ... thank you" Izuku answers with a smile on his face.
They started to talk about different topics, Izuku gushed about different Heroes and their Quirks while Inko gives her input from a medical side and speaks from the latest Rumors on her Workspace at the Hospital.
They laugh at some of them while discussing some others but all in all they enjoy the evening. Izuku just enjoys the talks and lose himself in them forgetting the world around him. Later as he goes to sleep, he remembers ray but as he looks around, he couldn’t find the boy. Well ether he walked away, or it was just a dream.
The next morning Izuku woke up groaning as his Complete Body screams at him painfully as if he worked out and overdid it massive. Despite that he slowly moves himself out bed and Showers, The Hot water helps a little as it runs over his body.
After the shower Izuku packs his things and which mostly wandered from his Bed to his Table. He froze as he notices the Leather book again, laying there innocently. Slowly his reaches for it and in the moment, he Touched it... nothing happened.
"Eh must have been a dream" Izuku mutters to himself wondering if he maybe cached something. It would explain a lot if it was just a fever dream. if Izuku remembers correctly this kind of dreams can sometimes show somebody his deepest desire and that ... well that would be a quirk.
He shacks his Head as he packed the book in to return it to the police later and moves out the house to the school. Hopefully his sore Body is the only surprise for today.
It wasn’t. it absolutely wasn’t the only surprise that the day had to Offer Izuku. Kaachan is especially bad mood today and Izuku is his Personal stress reliever for that which results in mean comments and even meaner hits. Normally Izuku would just flee from this kind of situations but with how his Body feels … it didn’t go as planned.
"... Midoriya even if you don’t have a Quirk you have to pay attention to the class!" The Teacher shout at Izuku which shrink away from the sudden noise near him.
"Sorry" Izuku yelped a quick excuse and his classmates snicker at it. The Teacher satisfied with the Reaction he got moves to the front again and continues his class.
Izuku tries to follow it but his thoughts always drift to the weird dream that he experienced yesterday... it just felt so real...
The School Bell snapped him out his mind as he realized that he didn’t pack his things like he usual did. Quickly he gathered all his stuff and shuffle it into his Backpack as long as the Teacher is in the same room with him. He Stands up as soon as they there dismissed and sprinted out the Door hoping to escape his Tormentors.
He hears the familiar Cracking of Kaachans Quirk behind him.
"DONT YOU DARE TO RUN SHITTY DEKU" Shouts Kaachan behind him as he run around a corner.
Izuku exits the school grounds followed by his pursuers. He run into the nearby allies hoping to lose them there, but a hand suddenly grabs his collar stopping him in his movement. Fear runs thru Izuku’s his Veins as he notices the sudden change of his momentum, instinctive he tried to shake the hand of but suddenly his knee gives in, and he falls to the ground.
He looks up and sees Kaachans eyes resting on him.
"FUCKING FINALLY" Kaachan shouts between his heavy breaths. Both his self-proclaimed friends both arrive in the same time totally out of breath, one of them come beside Kaachan.
"Bakugo really captured that useless Deku" he says with a hint of admiration in his voice before he kicks Izuku in his Stomach.
"Stupid Deku running away from us is useless" he curses him out while kicking.
"Yeah, you should know better" the other one joins the first while Izuku still lays on the ground protecting his vitals as they kick him.
"Enough Extras" shouts Kaachan as he pushes on of them to the side. Izuku hope that it would already be over but as Kaachan grabs him on his Shirt again and lifts him up he knew that that wasnt the case.
"Shitty Deku still believes that he can be a Hero" Kaachan proclaims loudly before he hits him in the stomache again. Izuku kneels over only to be forced to stand again.
"Heroes have to be strong" another hit
"Heroes need the strenght to Win" another Hit
"And most of all" hit again
"They need a Quirk to be one" one final hit and kaachan let go of him. Izuku crumbles to the ground holding his stomach.
"Tch." Kaachan turns around and walks away directly followed by his lackeys.
"What a useless Deku" Comment one of them
"Still delusional" comment the other while shaking his head a moment later they laugh and vanish around the next corner.
Izuku slowly picks himself up from the ground even if the cold feels nice on his skin. He couldn’t outrun Kaachan, … he was even more violent than typical… or was it Izuku imagination because he doesn’t feel so good to begin with…?
Either way Kaachan cursed him like usual and put him in his Place as usual… Izuku wipes his tears away and assess the damage done to him. His clothes are a little burned, but he can see that, some nasty bruises are already building near his stomach but at least they are easy to hide. A Scratch on his Face … Izuku sights as he thought over a good story how he got that. Maybe the good old I feel down the stairs or that he was just a little to clumsy and run into a wall… yeah that should do it…
He straightens himself up before he suddenly feels something warm soothing over him, lessening the Pain and it even calm himself so far that he relaxes his Body but in the same time he feels his neck hairs raise like a cold shower flowing down his back.
"Why are they harassing you?" Ray asks suddenly besides Izuku with a Hand on Izuku´s back Looking concentrated with a hint of blue light in his eyes. Izuku himself handle this sudden appearing with such a grace that he just yelps and jumps to the side. Holding himself as if he anticipates the next Beating from him, holding his injured site.
"What... you ...but..." Izuku struggles to form a sentence, so he chooses just on word.
"HOW?" Izuku shouts loud questioning himself and everything that happened since yesterday. How was that possible. How does Ray Appear right now. How much did he see. How does he explain this… Izuku´s mind runs a mile per secund as he asks himself over and over, Ray on the other hand looks confused at him with a frown.
"How...?" he repeats the word as if it becomes anyhow clearer what Izuku mean while starts rubbing his forehead.
"I guess you want to know how I got here ... well it’s still your quirk so that is kind of obvious... maybe you want to know where I was until now ... that is also quickly explained because your body is adjusting to the sudden awaking and doesn’t led me stay here also should explain why you felled not like normally ...?" Ray began to walk up and down the Alley as he rambles thru the possible question while answering at the same time.
Izuku just stares as Ray continues with his mumble still trying to comprehend that it wasn’t a dream.
“Oh, maybe it’s how my days was until know…” Ray looks to Izuku with a smile it obviously looks fake and pained almost as if he tries to cheer himself up.
“I had really boring Day … had to wait in the Book dimension again waiting for an Opportunity to Appear again and the first thing I see is you getting chased by these meanies and Beaten half to death…” Ray´s smile vanish slowly in a frown as he pace for and backwards.
“So why…?” Ray abruptly stops pacing as he asks again. Izuku looks still stunned at him before he snaps out his manor and looks ashamed to the side.
“They… äh … we … played tag…? Yeah we played Tag.” Izuku answers uncertain trying to convince himself of that. Ray lifts an eyebrow as he almost looks pained hearing his answer.
“you… played… tag…” Ray repeats the words very slowly, his eyes fixate Izuku as he takes a deep Breath.
“With Quirks… and only one Person chased…Then holding this Person… and Beating that Person half death while telling them that they are nothing…?” Ray counts the things up that he witnessed which let Izuku shrink even further into himself.
“Doesn’t sound like tag Game to me” Ray continues unbothered.
“It sounds more like a description how somebody gets Bullied and Dies a horrible Death.” Ray gets angrier as he speaks.
“They didn’t mean it that way, they-” Izuku tries to defend the situation only to be cut off by Ray.
“THEY DIDN’T MEAN IT THAT WAY” Ray repeats the words loudly.
“THEY DIDN’T MEAN WHAT THEY SAID…THEY DIDN’T MEAN IT TO INJURE YOU… IZUKU THEY ALMOST KILLED YOU BY NOT MEANING IT.” Ray screams angry and punches a wall only to phrase thru it. Izuku was taken back by Rays shouting.
“That’s not true they-“ Izuku was cut off again by Ray.
“Do you know the term internal bleeding?” Ray says with a cold voice looking away from Izuku to the side.
“It´s an injuria that’s happened in the inside of the Body, isn’t noticeable at first except from the Pain at the injured site, maybe a swollen or tight abdomen, it could cause Nausea and Vomiting… it can show signs thru a pale, clammy or sweaty skin. Depending on the Location it could cause Breathlessness, extreme thirst and of course unconsciousness and can be the cause of death if it goes unnoticed…” Ray rattles the symptoms down his voice cracking a bit. Izuku stares at him as he tries to follow.
“One of these locations could be the abdomen or stomach… and one of the causes is blunt trauma…” Ray looks to Izuku before he continues.
“… kicks and punches have the same effect” Izuku eyes widens as he understands what Ray means with half death and touches his Stomach but …he notices that the Pain wasn’t there anymore. Izuku looks at his hands noticing the absents of scratches or little wounds from the fall. Slowly he lifts his shirt anticipating a nasty bruise but…
“You had such an internal bleeding…” Ray speaks with his mind absence Looking elsewhere as Izuku looks surprised at his completely normal looking skin without any signs of bruises or hints of being kicked or punched.
“… I had to Heal you…” Ray´s words began to slur together which alarms Izuku that something isn’t right. Izuku walks to Ray as he notices that something drips from Rays Face. Slowly Ray turns to him, Nose bleeding and his eyes filled with a glassy look. Not aware of Izuku´s movement at all Ray mumbles some words before he crumbles to the ground no longer having the strength to support his body. Izuku catches him before he hits the ground. Ray feels like he is burning up, sweating and breathing hard.
“Just… need … a minute…” Ray speaks with a weak voice as he let Izuku guide him to the ground to sit. Izuku looks worried over him and pulls out his Phone to call an Ambulance, but Ray only shakes his head.
“They… can´t see me…” Ray touches a nearby wall only that his hand phased thru it.
“…remember?”
“But… what is happening?” Izuku asks distressed supporting him.
“It’s a … backlash… from using to much” Ray answers
“A Backlash from your Quirk… because you healed me…?” Izuku asks again as he looks guilty at him. Ray chuckles with a pain expression.
“Not really… its …Complicated but… essentially you…” Ray dots Izuku whit his finger.
“You allow me to escape the book and it… grants me some … abilities.” Ray´s eyes shine blue again as he lets a flame appear on his hand. Izuku observes the flame but as he tries to look more in detail at it the flames change the color to a light blue and become transparent.
“The Book… it has some rules for every ability… “Ray continues as he lets the flames vanish again slowly looking better, still pale but somehow better.
“One of the… is that you have to withstand a mental strain which … depending on the spell… varies.” Ray explains further. Izuku listen attentively trying to understand Rays … Quirk? Can you call it a quirk? It sounds like a collection of … what did he say… Spells? Like a Wizard or Magician…?
“I Panicked” Ray says suddenly which gets Izuku´s attention again.
“I panicked as I saw you getting in this state and … overdid it…” Ray looks at him again
“but … I don’t regret it…” Ray smiles tiredly before he groans attempting to stand up.
“Ok… maybe a bit” Izuku chuckles a bit at that as he helps him.
“You know… you could learn to access some of the Abilities” Ray speaks again as he stands on his two legs again. Izuku eyes blows wide as he registers the Words that left Rays mouth.
“I… what … you mean… I …” Izuku can’t find the right words again to respond.
“Is it really Possible, I mean it sounds like a dream… it is not a dream I’m right, right? I don’t hallucinate or maybe…” Izuku rambles himself in a downright spiral before ray kicks him lightly against his leg.
“Ouch why…”
“It’s to protect yourself” Ray Clarifies
“And … it always comes with a price.” He continues with a serious voice.
“A Price…?”
#“Yes a Price…” Rays Body began to morph to a more Transparent form. Izuku´s Eyes widens as he notices the change.
“Ray… your Body” He spokes mortified. Ray looks at him confused before his eyes wander over his Body.
“… aw shoot…” Ray sounds more disappointed than afraid.
“Don´t worry, I’m just going back into the Book… I hoped that I have a little bit more time” He sights as he finished explaining.
“But why…” Izuku asks with curiosity in his voice.
“Because I overdid it and …” He points at Izuku.
“You aren´t ready yet.”
“What do you M-“
“Your Body undergoes some changes “ Ray explains briefly.
“Nothing serious… it has to accept a new development and tries to adjust accordingly but you are not ready now” Rays body becomes harder to track.
“Sorry… I come back then I can…” and with that he vanishes into thin air and lets Izuku alone in the Ally wondering what happened in that short amount of time and what that all means for him.
Slowly he stands up with a smile forming on his face as he walks home as he thought about the whole thing and Rays Quirk and the endless Possibilities and applications from what he saw. Nether less to say that he picked a new Notebook labeling it “Possible Abilities and Applications” for the next time Ray appears.